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21st Century Aviation

Aviation innovations, milestones and developments from 2001 to the present
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The truth is that portable electronic devices can emit powerful electromagnetic radiation that can muck up an aircraft’s navigation and communication systems and actually endanger a flight.

Turn Off That Phone!

For those who've use portable electronic devices aboard airliners: Here's why they're dangerous.
September 2004 | By John Croft

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Iridium

Iridium's constellation of 66 comsats was a technological triumph but a business disaster-until an executive and a computer geek found salvation in the Pentagon.
September 2004 | By Craig Mellow

The People and Planes of Spruce Creek

Fun: flying south for the winter. More fun: flying every day
July 2004 | By Debbie Gary

Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, playing with a water droplet last October, arrived and departed on a Soyuz.

The First 1,000 Days

Ghost alarms, foul odors, and a tourist season? Life aboard the International Space Station.
July 2004 | By Thomas D. Jones

A gold Mylar cone (center) attached to Cassini will protect Huygens as it plunges Titanward.

Saturn's Deep, Dark Secret

Titan, the only major body in the solar system that we haven't gotten a good look at, is about to be outed.
July 2004 | By Craig Mellow

At idyllic Grimes Airfield in Bethel, Pennsylvania, vintage aircraft like the Staggerwing fly in for the Golden Age Flying Circus Airshow.

Airshow Lite

The smaller the airshow, the closer you get to the airplanes and pilots. (And the better the food.)
May 2004 | By Patricia Trenner

Supporting Cast

In which we survey the variety of objects to which a jet engine can be affixed.
May 2004 | By Roger A. Mola

Lockheed Martin has considered both lifting bodies and ballistic capsules for the proposed Crew Exploration Vehicle. The rounded capsule is shown attached to a service module, which provides propulsion.

Retro Rocketeers

If a capsule was good enough to get a crew to the moon, these old-timers say, it's good enough to get a crew back to Earth.
May 2004 | By James Oberg

'It's All About Fire, Smoke, and Noise'

You know those little rockets made of wood and glue that you can stuff a motor in and launch from the field next door? These aren't them.
January 2004 | By Preston Lerner

CH-46Es glow in a view through night-vision goggles aboard the flight deck of the USS Saipan.

Through Darkest Iraq with Gun and Cobra

A month of war through the night-vision goggles of a Marine AH-1W SuperCobra pilot.
January 2004 | By Story and photographs by James Cox

A simulated Mars Exploration Rover roams a simulated planet. In January it all becomes real.

Next Stop Gusev Crater

If planetary scientists could do whatever they wished, they'd probably send a spacecraft to land on the floor of Valles Marineris.
January 2004 | By Michael Milstein

Backgrounder: State of the Station

The International Space Station is on hold while NASA answers calls for attention in the order in which they are received.
November 2003 | By Tony Reichhardt

NASA once considered using the space shuttle to carry the X-37 to orbit, but those plans changed. When the craft does go into space, it will most likely ride atop an expendable launcher.

Will the Air Force Finally Get a Spaceplane?

If Boeing's X-37 can maneuver politically as well as in space.
January 2003 | By Ben Iannotta

Galileo's Last Look

Launched 13 years ago, a rugged spacecraft send its last postcards from Jupiter.
September 2002 | By Tony Reichhardt

Arthur Tomassetti is go for Mission X in the X-35B.

Above & Beyond: Mission X

May 2002 | By Major Arthur Tomassetti

Above & Beyond: Pushback: Newark Airport, 8:45 a.m.

What 9/11 looked like from one airliner’s cockpit.
January 2002 | By Anonymous

Above & Beyond: Relief Flight

November 2001 | By Tom Pinardo, as told to Vincent Czaplyski


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